The charity where donors pay no overhead and choose what their dollars will be used for
What’s New…
2024 Hurricanes:HOT is working to provide needed relief to victims of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Please help us with your support with your donation
Israel’s War With Hamas: On the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Hamas launched a massive attack on Israel. A year later, HOT continues to be hard at work on behalf of the many victims of Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas and Hezbollah – click to read about our ongoing efforts. Please help us to continue to provide essential support by donating to the HOT‘s Emergency Fund for Israel
Our Fall 2023 / Winter 2024 HOT News describes each of the projects HOT is supporting, and how you can make a direct impact on these critical projects!
We are celebrating over 20 years of allowing our donors to make a profound impact in the lives of others with none of their contributions charged to overhead!
HOT is about helping The Poor and the Hungry, The Elderly, Youth at Risk, Individuals with Special Needs, and those who need Compassionate Care, or are Victims of War, Terror, or a Natural Disaster. We have helped these people, all of whom without HOT would have continued to suffer. We did this with 100% of the money raised going to people that needed our help. No overhead of any kind is charged to any donor’s gift other than one donor who pays for all of these expenses and makes a large enough programmatic gift to “seed” all of HOT’s programs.
Important Announcement
After 22 years of helpingthe Poor,theHungry,Youth at Risk, TheElderly, those withSpecial Needsand those needingCompassionate CareandVictims of War, Terror and/or Natural Disasters,I am facing certain health issues that do not permit me to giveHOTall the attention that I feel it needs. As a result of that,HOTwill only accept contributionsuntil April 30, 2026,and will then go into a “Spend Down Mode” which we expect will be completed prior toJune 30, 2026.
During HOT’s 22 years, all of its expenses have been paid by a single donor, allowing 100% of all other donations to go directly to helping our beneficiaries. Our donors have contributed over $30 million in cash and securities, and have given HOT millions of dollars in tangible goods that we used to help victims of hurricanes and other natural disasters.
In our year ended on June 30, 2024, which included the first 9 months of the wars with Hamas and Hezbollah, we raised $4,050,000 – or more than 3 times what had previously been our normal year, and with virtually no fundraising we received gifts of $1,840,000 in our year that just ended on June 30, 2025.
While I believe we have succeeded in our mission many times over, we – unfortunately – did not set up a proper succession plan. I will take full responsibility for what has now become a critical mistake. I ignored the fact that no one lives forever or is immune to serious illnesses.
Having chastised myself for not having properly addressed succession, I am proud of all the help we have given to hundreds of thousands of people. The $30,000,000 referred to above is probably equivalent to more than $40,000,000 from virtually any other charity because HOT only made grants to pay the direct expenses of our partners projects.
There is no way to thank YOU enough for letting us become a part of your process in determining where your charitable dollars went. We are still working with many of our partners that you can read about in the Fall 2023/Winter 2024 HOT News and we will be happy to introduce you directly to them or take designated gifts to them through April 30, 2026. Please email me at ron@handsontzedakah.org or call me at 561-922-7574 with any questions.
